Comments on: Bra wearing and breast cancer http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/ Natural Beauty Inside Out Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:36:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bobbie http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-380015 Bobbie Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:51:46 +0000 http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/#comment-380015 It won't cause sagging (actually the opposite) but if you've been wearing a bra all day every day for years you probably won't want to go without during vigorous activity, at least not for a while. As far as pain and discomfort, we are all accustomed to some pain and discomfort during vigorous activity. It doesn't feel good to come down hard after going up for a basket, volleyball spike, etc. But we don't generally notice as we are used to it and are concentrating on the activity unless it is to an extreme, like coming down on a stone, twisting the ankle, etc. Women of "quality" used to go to "finishing" school to learn how to walk and use stairs smoothly without jouncing, among other skills. Stylish corsets were open-topped, so any jouncing set the breasts jiggling on top like balloons full of jello. Learn to walk smoothly and you can go braless or minimally bra'ed except perhaps during exercise and running, without bouncing and swaying. Exercising, if it causes weight loss, may reduce the fat in your breasts. As most of the "filling" of the breast envelope is fat, loss of fat will "deflate" the breasts, making them appear to sag, especially if you've been overweight and the skin of your breasts has stretched. If you will watch you will see that most women today aren't like plaster mannequins when they move. A lot more breast movement than was socially acceptable years ago. It won’t cause sagging (actually the opposite) but if you’ve been wearing a bra all day every day for years you probably won’t want to go without during vigorous activity, at least not for a while.
As far as pain and discomfort, we are all accustomed to some pain and discomfort during vigorous activity. It doesn’t feel good to come down hard after going up for a basket, volleyball spike, etc. But we don’t generally notice as we are used to it and are concentrating on the activity unless it is to an extreme, like coming down on a stone, twisting the ankle, etc.
Women of “quality” used to go to “finishing” school to learn how to walk and use stairs smoothly without jouncing, among other skills. Stylish corsets were open-topped, so any jouncing set the breasts jiggling on top like balloons full of jello. Learn to walk smoothly and you can go braless or minimally bra’ed except perhaps during exercise and running, without bouncing and swaying.
Exercising, if it causes weight loss, may reduce the fat in your breasts. As most of the “filling” of the breast envelope is fat, loss of fat will “deflate” the breasts, making them appear to sag, especially if you’ve been overweight and the skin of your breasts has stretched.
If you will watch you will see that most women today aren’t like plaster mannequins when they move. A lot more breast movement than was socially acceptable years ago.

]]> By: Bobbie http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-380012 Bobbie Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:38:31 +0000 http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/#comment-380012 The insult "loose woman" came from the corset era. Women who did not wear, for whatever reason, typically poverty, a corset were called "loose," inferring loose morals. The poor have through the ages been looked down on as being poor due to low morals. http://bible.cc/deuteronomy/15-11.htm . If you are rich it must be that God loves you? http://bible.cc/james/2-6.htm Prostitutes, most of whom were poor or they wouldn't have been prostituting, commonly did not wear "stays" (corsets) so the association of loose clothing and loose morals stuck. It was also a mark of low morals for a woman to wear underpants, as actresses, dancers and ... prostitutes, all considered women of low morals, were the introducers of women's underpants. So no matter what a woman does, someone is going to accuse her of wrongdoing. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. http://bible.cc/matthew/11-18.htm, 11-19.htm . Can't please everyone all the time. The insult “loose woman” came from the corset era. Women who did not wear, for whatever reason, typically poverty, a corset were called “loose,” inferring loose morals. The poor have through the ages been looked down on as being poor due to low morals. http://bible.cc/deuteronomy/15-11.htm . If you are rich it must be that God loves you? http://bible.cc/james/2-6.htm

Prostitutes, most of whom were poor or they wouldn’t have been prostituting, commonly did not wear “stays” (corsets) so the association of loose clothing and loose morals stuck. It was also a mark of low morals for a woman to wear underpants, as actresses, dancers and … prostitutes, all considered women of low morals, were the introducers of women’s underpants. So no matter what a woman does, someone is going to accuse her of wrongdoing. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. http://bible.cc/matthew/11-18.htm, 11-19.htm . Can’t please everyone all the time.

]]> By: Bobbie http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-380011 Bobbie Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:26:05 +0000 http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/#comment-380011 John Dixey is the former chief executive of Sara Lee Intimates, UK, parent company of Playtex and Wonderbra. John Dixey is the former chief executive of Sara Lee Intimates, UK, parent company of Playtex and Wonderbra.

]]> By: sesame http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-298956 sesame Sat, 08 May 2010 08:59:20 +0000 http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/#comment-298956 Hey, thanks for sharing this info! I'll be happy not to wear bra. I do that all the time at home. But one question, do you think it's better to exercise with bra or without bra? I came across some info suggestion without but I wonder if it'll cause saggng. Hey, thanks for sharing this info! I’ll be happy not to wear bra. I do that all the time at home. But one question, do you think it’s better to exercise with bra or without bra? I came across some info suggestion without but I wonder if it’ll cause saggng.

]]> By: Bobbie http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-298947 Bobbie Sat, 08 May 2010 05:32:20 +0000 http://www.vivawoman.net/2007/04/01/bra-wearing-and-breast-cancer/#comment-298947 Sorry about the gap in the account of breast sagging research. "Conducted at" goes to "The only study..." not to "Playtex." Sorry about the gap in the account of breast sagging research. “Conducted at” goes to “The only study…” not to “Playtex.”

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